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overcook

US/oʊ.vɚ.kʊk/

overcook verb: to cook for too long or at too high a temperature.

Verb

overcook (third-person singular simple present overcooks, present participle overcooking, simple past and past participle overcooked)

  1. (transitive) To cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
  2. (slang, transitive) To do something to excess; to overdo; to ruin due to excessive effort.
    • The runner overcooked it on the first lap, and ended up finishing last.

overcook meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Punjabi

overcook in Tamil

காந்தல்

overcook in Bengali

কোনো কিছু অতিরিক্ত করা, বেশি করা

overcook in Punjabi

to overcook
ਸਾੜਨਾ sāṛnā

Examples of overcook in a sentence

  • This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.
  • His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.
  • The consistency of powidl is only achieved by evaporating water from the overcooked fruit mash.

All 19 example sentences with overcook

Antonyms of overcook

Forms of overcook

third-person singular presentovercooks
present participleovercooking
past participleovercooked
pastovercooked
alternative formover-cook

Past tense of overcook: overcooked

Origin of overcook

From over- + cook.

Words formed from overcook

Words that rhyme with overcook

38 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about overcook

What does overcook mean?
Overcook means to cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
What is overcook in Tamil?
Overcook in Tamil is காந்தல். See Overcook meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overcook?
Overcook is a verb.
How do you pronounce overcook?
Overcook is pronounced /oʊ.vɚ.kʊk/ (US).
What is the past tense of overcook?
The past tense of overcook is overcooked.

Words near overcook in the dictionary

  1. overconvergent
  2. overconvict
  3. overconvicted
  4. overconvicting
  5. overconvicts
  6. overcook
  7. overcooked
  8. overcookedness
  9. overcooker
  10. overcookers
  11. overcooking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcook (page history and authors); overcook (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overcook (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸਾੜਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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